606 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
This strongly marked species is known only from the original type 
from the Galapagos Archipelago. 
30. GYMNOTHORAX MODESTUS. 
Murcena modesta Kaup, Aale Hamburg. Mus., 21, tab. 4, fig. 2, 1859 {fide Giintber) (Val- 
paraiso); Gunther, viii, 126, 1870. 
Habitat : Coast of Chile. 
Etymology : Latin, modest. 
This species is known only from Kaup 7 s scanty description. 
31. GYMNOTHORAX MADEXRENSIS. 
Pseudomurcena madeirensis Johnson, Proc. Zooi. Soc. Lon., 167, 1860 (Madeira). 
Murcena madeirensis, Giinther, viii, 125, 1870 (Madeira). 
Habitat : Madeira Islands. 
Etymology : From Madeira. 
This species is known to us only from descriptions. 
32. GYMNOTHORAX OCELLATUS. 
( a ) Var ..Ocellatus. 
Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz, Spix. Pise. Brasil, 91, tab. 50&, 1828 {fide Gunther). 
Schomburgk, Reis. Brit. Guiana, 639, 1842 ; Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., 154, 1879 (West Florida) ; Goode & Bean, ibid, 344 (ClearWater 
Harbor). 
Murcena ocellata Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, 145, 1S42 (Rio Janeiro) ; Richardson, Voy. 
Erebus and Terror, 82, pi. 47, figs. 6-10, 1844 ; Gunther, vm, 102, 1870 ; Jor- 
dan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 356, 1883 (description). 
Murcenophis ocellatus Castelnau, Anim. Amerique Sud, Poiss., 82, 1855 (Bahia). 
Priodonopliis ocellatus Kaup, Aale Hamburg. Mus., 22, 1859; Kner, Novara Fische, 383, 
1857 to 1859 (Rio Janeiro) ; Poey, Repertorio, n, 262; Poey, Syn. 427, 1868: 
Poey, Enumeratio, 159, 1875. 
( b ) Var. Saxicola. 
Murcena meleagris Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Freycinet, Zool., 245, pi. 52, fig. 2 {fide 
Gunther) (not of Shaw). 
Priodonopliis meleagris Poey, Repertorio, n, 262, 1867 ;, Poey, Syn., 428, 1868 (Cuba). 
Murcena ocellata Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 260, 1882 (Pensacola, Fla.). 
Sidera ocellata Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 209, 1883 ; Jordan, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 42, 1884 (Egmont Key); Jordan. Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., 34, 1886 (Havana). 
Gymnothorax ocellatus saxicola Jordan & Davis, var. uov. (Snapper Banks at Pensa- 
cola). 
(c) Var. Nigromarginatus. 
Neomurcena nigromarginata Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 76, pi. 41, 1859 (St. 
Joseph Island, Texas). 
Sidera nigromarginata Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 473, 1886 (Pensa- 
cola, Fla.). 
